Lexical Influences on Spoken Spondaic Word Recognition in Hearing-Impaired Patients.

ABSTRACT: Top-down contextual influences play a major part in speech understanding, especially in hearing-impaired patients with deteriorated auditory input. Those influences are most obvious in difficult listening situations, such as listening to sentences in noise but can also be observed at the word level under more favorable conditions, as in one of the most commonly used tasks in audiology, i.e., repeating isolated words in silence. This study aimed to explore the role of top-down contextual influences and their dependence on lexical factors and patient-specific factors using standard clinical linguistic material. Spondaic word perception was tested in 160 hearing-impaired patients aged 23-88 years with a four-frequency average pure-tone threshold ranging from 21 to 88 dB HL. Sixty spondaic wor

SUBMITTER: Moulin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4688363 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature